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No. 291,615. Patented Jan. 8. 1884.

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PAPER BOX.-

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,615, dated January 8,. 1884.

Application filed xovember'ee, uses. x model.)

1o 1 Boxes made of paper and similar material,

of the class known as slideboxes, which 1 consistof a tubular cover and a trough-like box adapted to slide therein, now form an article of commerce extensively used for the packing of cigarettes, cheroots, matches, and like articles which require to be removed one by one as they are consumed. Suchboxes have the quality or capacity of being knocked down for shipment,andmust, from the low eovalue of the contents they are used to package, be produced at very low cost. This has led to the use of cheap, and hence light, material, and necessitated an economy in thequantity used for each box.

i duce a sufficiently strong box, the sides of such boxes haveheretofore been constructed in trouglrlike form,without flaps for uniting the corners, and hence comprising only a bot 3 tom, two sides, and two ends, which sides and ends were free, and the latter were extended so as not only to turn up and form the ends of the slide, but tuck into the cover, to secure said ends from falling down. Such a boxslide, while securing great economy of production, possesses the disadvantage that when its said tucking end is pulled down it does not sufficiently expose the contents,in some cases,

I to permit a ready removal thereof.

4 The present invention consists in providing a box-slide whose end or ends carry tuckingflaps, but whose body consists of free unattached parts, with incisions dividing its bottom from its sides for a distance sufficient toadmit the said end or ends to be folded back to expose the contents, as will most fully hereinafter appear.

A box embodying this improvement is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and

' In order to lessen the material and yet pro-' while they show both ends constructed to embody the invention, it is to be understood that but one end may be so constructed,while the other end of both cover and slide maybe solid.

In said drawings, Figure 1 illustrates the blank constituting, when properly folded, the box-slide. Fig. 2 illustrates an elevation of said slide when properly folded. Fig. 3 illustrates said slide when inserted in a tubular cover, the cover and slide being shown in sec: tional elevation and the extended end of "the latter laid open or pulled out. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of cover and inserted slide], the latter being slightly withdrawn and laid open to illustrate its operation. 1 In constructing the tubular cover it is only necessary I to properly crease a rectangular blank upon suitable lines to define the formation of the corners and to overlap and unite the edges to secure the tubular form suited to the dimensionsof the slide, thus producing a tube with top A, bottom B, and sides K L, as has long been practiced, and is now too well junderstood to need detailed description. The

slide or trough-like structure adapted to be entered into and drawn from this tubular cover is constructed from a blank shaped as in Fig. 1. It is creased on lines 2 at to define the union of its sides 0 D with the bottom E and enable them to be turned up a-tright an- S0 gles thereto. It is also creased on lines 6,. to make the ends F to be raised at right angles to the bottom and make a trough-like structme. These ends F are furthermore provided with extensions or flaps H and creased on the 8 5 lines 3, to enable said flaps to be turned at right angles to the said ends F, and when so turned to overlie the bottom E.

The sides 0 D are divided from the bottom E along the lines 2 4: by severings, as a, for a 0 distance sufficient to enable the bottom to be bent down on lines, as 5, and thus carry with them the ends F and their extreme flaps H, as well as a portion of the bottom E. (See Figs.

2, 3, i.) WVhen the parts are folded upward 5, and the flaps H are turned inward, the slide, wholly ununited on any of its severed lines, or where any two of its edges meet, is capable of being entered into the tubular body or cover, and when so entered its sides D will besupported by the side walls, K L, of the tubular cover and its ends by the flaps H, which are confined beneath the top A of the cover. (See Fig. 3.)

While it is desirable to define the lines by creasing or scoring during the production of the blank for the slide, this is not essential, and may be omitted. By this improved structure the slide may be packed flat for shipment or storage, and when it is to be used to pack articles they may be laid upon it and the sides and ends raised to inclose the contents without injury thereto, and when so enveloped the slide may readily be introduced into the tubue lar cover, which will operate, as before explained, to hold the parts of the slide, and will hence confine and protect the contents. When it is desired to expose, examine, or remove any part of the contents, the slide is thrust bodily outward, so as to cause one end to project from the cover, which may be done by pushing upon one end, if a cover with both ends open is used, or by pressing upon the corner made by the fold on the line, as 3, in either of which cases the flap H will be detached,so that the whole end and the bottom,

back as far as the divisions awillpcrmit, may

of as1ide-box composed of upturned sides and 1 ends, said ends having tucking-flaps, and said .sides being severed near each end from the.

be turned down,as in Figs. 3, 4, without moving or changing the position of the sides 0 D of theslide,and the contents of theslide become exposed, so as to be most conveniently reached j by the fingers. When it is desired to close the package, the end of the slid-e will be raised,and

its flap H laid parallel with the bottom of the slide, and the whole slide may then be pushed into the cover to restore the package to its closed position. Thus is produced a structure which requires no cemented or otherwise permanently united parts, or the overlapping members necessary thereto, and which in consequence admits of great economy in the material comprising it, while at the same time it provides in the simplest manner the greatest convenience of manipulation in receiving, exposing, removing, and replacing its contents.

Vhat is claimed is 1. A. slide-box consisting of ablank creased or scored upon the lines 2 4 6.whereby it may be folded to provide sides and ends. and upon the line 3,to provide said end or ends with a tucking-flap H. and severed at a, to allow its end or ends to be turned down, substantially as described. 2. A slide-box consisting of a blank creased or scored upon the lines 2 4 6,whereby it may be folded to provide sides and ends, upon line 3, to provide said end or ends with a tucking-flap, which is severed. at a, to allow said end or ends to be turned down, and creased on the line 5', to facilitate the latter movement, substantially as described.

3. The means whereby a portion of the-bottom of atrough-like slide-box is capacitated to be turned down to remove from it the con,- tents of said slide-box, the same consisting of the severings a, dividing the sides of the slide from its bottom at one or both ends, substanas described, a

4. The combination, with a tubular cover,

bottom, and all of said parts being ununited, so that the slide-box may be packed fiat, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' THEODORE MAR-BURG. Witnesses:

S. A. Monsn,

GEO. BIOCAFFRAY. 

